what happened to jim bakker

Jim Bakker is a televangelist who was involved in several scandals in the late 1980s. He resigned from the PTL ministry over a cover-up of hush money to church secretary Jessica Hahn for an alleged rape. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about felony charges, conviction, imprisonment, and divorce. Bakker later remarried and returned to televangelism, founding Morningside Church in Blue Eye, Missouri, and reestablishing the PTL ministry. In May 2020, Bakker suffered a stroke that his son Jay described as “minor,” and he took a sabbatical from his program until he recovers. Bakker is still alive and well, and he is currently the host of The Jim Bakker Show daily through his company Morningside Church Productions Inc. .